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YouTube will never achieve profit margins as high as Google Search
“YouTube is not never going to be a high margin business because number one, they don't serve ads on subscription like users. And number two, like they have to pay the creators, they have to pay the media partners. So it's never going to be as high margins as s…”
Perplexity will not spend its resources building data centers or custom chips
“We're not gonna, like, spend all our bandwidth building data centers and chips and, like, trying to just talk about, like, breaking the most reason coding a math benchmark.”
Srinivas: Perplexity faces daily infrastructure issues due to rapid usage growth
“Well, whether you believe it or not, like, I have infra issues every day, so there are a lot of people using it, and this usage is actually growing to the extent that we don't actually know how to deal with it. We have to rebuild the infra to scale the next NX…”
Srinivas: There is still no good way to search X
“There still is no good way to search over Twitter.”
Srinivas: Perplexity launched seven days after ChatGPT, which lacked web search
“We launched it seven days after the ChatGPT launch, especially at a time when ChatGPT did not have web search.”
Srinivas initially pitched seed investor Elad Gil on smart glasses, not search
“I was like, adoshes enough to go and pitch to the first seed investor of ours, Elad Gill, that like, hey, like you know, I want to disrupt Google but I kind of want to do it from pixels from a glass”
Perplexity's first demo queried Twitter tables using OpenAI Codex
“Twitter. The pre-Elon CEO moments academic access was allowed, legal, so we built a database of Twitter. We organized it in the form of tables. We tried to do it with the OpenAI codex models. This was even pre-GPT-III. We wrote a lot of templates.”